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Article: State's best wines this year
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- December 19, 2007
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Once again, in the retrospective spirit of the season, I offer a
highly personal list of the year's Top 100 Washington wines.
There are now more than 530 bonded wineries in the state. If they
average just 10 wines annually (some less, some more), that's more
than 5,000 wines. Do I taste them all? In my dreams! But I do taste
a significant percentage, and that, along with frequent visits to
wineries and vineyards, numerous conversations and tastings with the
winemakers themselves, and a depth of reference tastings reaching
back a quarter century, all enter into this ranking.
Many of the elite Washington wineries sell most of their wines to
mailing-list customers, select restaurants and wine ...